Author(s): Victoria Bomba Coifman
Publisher: University of Wisconsin
Year: 1969
Language: English
Pages: 405
City: Madison
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE................................................ III
LIST OF TABLES................................................. VI
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.......................................... VII
PART I. THE HISTORY DERIVED FROM ORAL TRADITIONS
Chapter
I INTRODUCTION............................................. 1
II THE GEOGRAPHICAL MILIEU................................. 36
III SOCIETY: ROYAL DESCENT SYSTEMS IN JOLOF AND WALO........ 57
IV SOCIETY: THE FREEBORN IN JOLOF AND WALO................ 97
V SOCIETY: THE ARTISAN CASTES AND CAPTIVES.................140
VI THE NARRATIVE OF EARLY WALO HISTORY..................... 183
VII THE NARRATIVE OF JOLOF HISTORY UNTIL THE FRENCH ARRIVAL. 214
PART II." THE ORAL TRADITIONS
VIII THE NARRATIVES OF NDIADIAiNE NDIAYE AND BARKA BO........ 268
IX THE NARRATIVES OF JOLOF HISTORY........................... 328
I KING LISTS AND ANNEX.................................... 377
BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................... 393